Sharp County record., 1887-12-29

rance of her parents, and, before assist
ance could reach her, was burned to
death.
DIR, MACKENZIE will shortly make an
other examination of the Crown Princes
throat. The royal sufferer is worse.
THE branch home for disabled volun teer
soldiers, provided for by Congress to be
established on the Pacific coast, has been
located at Santa Monica, CAL, fourteen
miles from Los Angeles, on the ocean.
JAS. RANKEN, a young Nebraska farmer,
while out hunting in sleigh, on the 18th,
accidentally discharged both barrels OF
his gun into his heart. The fash caught
his clothing on fire and burned his body to
q crisp.
LITERARY, member Of the Hungarian
Parliament, who was wounded in a duel
with his brother in-law, is dead.
THE remains of Charles Fry were found
hanging from a tree at Nntrona, Pa, at
an early hour on the morning of the 14th.
Foul play is suspected and an inyestiga-
tion was ordered by the coroner.
REPORTS from the northern border of the
Pan handle of Texas and the public
land strip" indicatea deplorable state OF
affairs, murder and robbery running rife.
The Warren Manufacturing Company's
elevator, at Warren, Minn., containing
80, 900 bushels Of wheat, was burned on
the night of the 18th. The elevator and
contents were valued at $4,000 and were
partially insured.
The Winnipeg (Man.) gas works were
4 h. ;obt 81 18th. 1ncc
$125,0O0.
THE Elkhart Qnd) paper-pail and the
Excelsior starch mills were burned to the
ground on the 14th. This will throw
about 200 men out of employment; loss,
$4,000.
THE barn Of John Becker in Manor
township, Lancaster County, Pa, was
burned on the night of the 18th with all
the seasons crop and farm implements.
Thirty two head of cattle, twenty-five
hogs, five mules and horse were burned
to death. Loss, $4,000; insured for
$S, 400.
1T is reported at Duluth Mimi, that E.
|. Sawyer, secretary of the Duluth Roll er
mill, who is now in Washington Terri itory,
got away with $4,000 of the company's
money. Sawyer was engaged to the
daughter of one of the wealthiest citizens
in st. Paul.
WHILE crossing the Missouri river
twenty miles below Bismark, OAK, on the
night of the 18th, family consisting Of
Charles Whalen, wife and daughter, were
drowned. They lost the road and the
team passed so near large air-ho that
the ice broke and the animals and people
were lost.
The body of Jerry White, farmer, who
lived near the village of Flushing, Mich,
and who mysteriously disappeared few
weeks ago, was found on the 14th IN a
log heap in the woods, ten miles from his
home, bearing marks of violence. A man
named Daniels, who had been negotiating
for the purchase of Whites farm, has
been arrested, charged with murder.
Hon. A. W. MCCLELLAN, Postmaster.
General of Canada, left Ottawa on the
14th for Washington to conclude the
negotiations for the establishment of a
parcel post system between the two
countries
A LONDON Times correspo ndent at Paris
repeats the story that II. Grevy des troyed
two of the Limozin letters, because his
name appeared in them, and says the
scandal case was dismissed to avoid i'm
plicating NJ. Grevy.
SOMETHING of sensation has been
caused in New Brunswick by story of
the discovery of several bushels of buried
'ereigns.